Was I at times square??

I'm giving myself 20 minutes to write this!!!

Ok so yesterday I flew to New York!
I have planned this trip for a very long time, meaning, I bought the tickets two months ago and haven't planned anything except that I booked an airbnb.

The last time I was in New York was 6 years ago and I wore cloggs with heels in the winter and in the summer I don't remember which shoes I had... I think red vans.
I had a much higher pain tolerance back then because in the winter I would walk around with my hand luggage bag all day in the snow, in heeled shoes.

Some things never change, for example, that I don't have a lot of money for travelling, so I took the cheapest flight (8am from berlin with 6 h layover in oslo) and only booked hand luggage for a month of being away.
I am very confident with my choice of clothing, which I have packed the night before I left.

My bag broke in Oslo, I can't really carry it anymore

I arrived in New York at 9pm and I didnt really know what to feel, I had been emo (meaning hungry and tired) all day, so finding my way to the airbnb was a good distraction from that. I have to admit I was a little bit scared because I didnt have data, wifi at the train stations, and I thought "what if I'm completely wrong, I will never find it".

I did take the wrong train twice, but the train station staff was very nice. It was a weird situation to get nervous about public transport, when in Berlin it's something you do with eyes closed.

I have another thought on public transport in a minute.
but ok first Who would have thought that my CHEAP ASS airbnb (20 per night) in Brooklyn is actually pretty ok, warm(i need it), comfy, with the bidet i ordered (lol), and clean.
I went to bed at midnight and woke up at 4am because i fell asleep on the plane.

at 7am I got up and looked on my phone

hoorah gurr had released a new single! there was stuff i could do on my phone

9.30 am i really want to go outside and get - money from a bank of america; - an adapter; - a sim card
but everything opens at 10am
I am bored
I walk around it's very cold. You know it says 10 degree but the wind is very cold and there is still snow on the sidewalks.
I order a coffee with almond milk (i dont know why seriously) and a croissant at a coffee shop thats called le paris something, wow the croissant is so bad!

I am very tired and I start walking to the next bank of america, 35 minutes away. I meet again the owner of the coffee place on the street and it makes me really happy, maybe I think he's handsome. Even though I am wearing my glasses, because I want to see things, I somehow still feel attracted to people from afar that later turn out to be these kind-of-hot but actually homeless a little crazy people?
I wondered today if I am one of those for other people, because I was singing out loud all day while walking because, i dont know, i was alone
but I love New York (ohmagud i love new york benn here for 10 hours) because everyone seems to do that, and to talk to each other, and is a little bit nuts also

- everyone is wearing airpods
- my daunenjacke baggypants look, situated in brooklyn, is more on the hot-or-homeless-and-a-little-nuts-side
- people sing and talk to themselves out loud, even if theyre normal i guess
- actually maybe they are on the phone and they have airpods
- so iz jus me doin it

wow ok so I needed a plan for today - first necessity was to STAY AWAKE. However, seeing the owner of the shitty coffee shop again made me so happy, i think it made some old feelings about previous stays pop up, too. So my spirit was awake for sure. But then I also walked by a lot of Jewish schools, which made me think about my ex boyfriend, which is maybe not such a nice thing to do when ur alone far away.

I hydrated and bought a sim card. I went to an "antique store" somewhere deeper south but it was closed, i really wanted to buy an analog camera for cheap and not for hipster price. My old one broke. I am sure it will find me, just like i found my old one somewhere in london.

I took the train, just to take the train and it took me to Manhattan! I got off near the world trade center because i was like, well i'm in new york, alone, lets just GET OVER WITH IT RIGHT

at the world trade center i took a photo for the family group chat.

my new goal was:
- to stay awake
- to walk all the way up through soho / bowery, visit NYU law where a friend is gonna study and then more up to 99cent pizza.

If you saw my insta story I was looking for food recs, which were all in brooklyn, but i wasnt but i was too lazy to do another insta story so i google "pizza slice"

I remember 6 years ago I went to something similar but it couldnt be that 99c pizza store because it said it was right near times square

i gave up walking and took two wrong trains

then i walked a little because i was annoyed by taking wrong trains

oh my god im telling you i walked in A SQUARE. i walked right and right and right and right! i am sooo awful at navigating myself.

Suddenly i'm on the broadway! I'm asking myself if this is times square somewhere
there are billboards everywhere
wait where is times square?! is it just like, a bigger street? no right?

I find 99c pizza and it's supopsed to be near times square

you get a pizza for one dollar and i get a sprite because i was like "i'm in america i should get a soda i guess"

when you walk into 99c pizza its a small room and people are standing on each side of the room, like little chickens, pretty close to each other, and they are all eating pizza slices

i found it very odd, but guess what, 2 minutes later i was standing on the right side, eating my pizza, facing the wall - and it wasnt awkward at all! we were just standing there, all the lonely people, facing the wall eating pizza! handing each other the chili flakes!
i really wanted to take a picture but it was too intimate with my fellow pizza eaters

i thought "this is how new yorkers eat pizza, great" and then i thought "ok this is a v touristy area i guess maybe we're all tourists eating pizza facing the wall, thinking this is how new yorkers eat pizza, but its just us dumb cows" but I was fine with it too. i think the real new yorkers just popped by from the office and took it to go.

here is my last thought on public transport. on the way back i watched a spontaneous dance show, that four people started on the platform. i missed two trains and was surprised to be thinking "wow i can just take any train i want."

because usually when i take subways / trains i just have to go somewhere and i cannoooott miss it , and the sooner, the better.

but here i was missing trains! the 4 people were dancing and it made a lot of the audience really happy. one of them had LED lights in his mouth and he hugged a woman with a child.

So many feelings to be felt; i had to go home and rest. I watched to episodes of broad city now and i want to check out this clothing store near me and .....STAY AWAKE.

And I dont know about times square, i will look up now if i was there or not :(

ps I wasnt, i shouldve gone 8 minutes up north.
pps but then i took the train too far anyways and had to walk down, so was I ?
 ppps i just googled pics and im still not sure if i was. will go back.